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André Luís
André Luís

Reputation: 141

Git Clone ssh authentication through bash script

I'm using Raspbian.

I did successfully added the key and I can clone a private repo with ssh auth manually, using the command git clone [email protected]:USER/repo.git.

Here is how I set it up:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C “email”
eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
ssh-add -k ~/.ssh/id_rsa
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

However, if I try to run git clone command through a bash script, I get Permission denied (publickey).

I'm running the script as "pi", with sudo. The script starts with #! /bin/bash and whoami (on the script) returns root, instead of "pi".

Could someone help me out, please?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3475

Answers (1)

Elias Toivanen
Elias Toivanen

Reputation: 848

SSH attemps to read the keys from $HOME/.ssh. Since you are running as root, the script most likely fails to find anything under /home/root/.ssh.

The fix? Try sudo -E, which preserves the environment variables. For more info, consult sudo(8).

Upvotes: 2

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